MIKROTIK

QUALITY OF SERVICE IN
WIRELESS
BRIDGE PTP LINK
By
Muhammad Zishan Shaukat
Tristar Technologies
MikroTik User Meeting, 30th January 2018
Nairobi (Kenya)
 OUTLINES
1. Wireless Problems in Congested Environment.
2. Solution with MikroTik ROS
3. How does it work in MikroTik?
4. Configuration to be used
5. My Successful Project Story
6. MikroTik ROS Configuration Steps
7. Conclusion
WIRELESS BRIDGE PTP LINK
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Wireless point to point links are widely used as

• quick-to-deploy
• cost effective
• Less Maintenance Time
• Troubleshoot free
• More..
CONGESTED ENVIRONMENT
WIRELESS PROBLEMS IN CONGESTED
ENVIRONMENT
 SOLUTION WITH MIKROTIK OS

MikroTik Router OS offer a very powerful and

extremely flexible QoS in wireless environment.
• Nstream v2 (NV2) Protocol
• Queues Management
• Frame-Priority
HOW DOES IT WORKS IN MIKROTIK

IP Phone
Mail Server with priority 7
with priority 6
FTP Server
with priority 3
 NV2 PROTOCOL
• Nstream v2 (NV2) is TDMA technology (Time
Division Multiple Access) based Wireless
PROTOCOL
• You can configure Nv2 in the Wireless menu.

• The most important benefits of Nv2 are:

• Increased speed
• More client connections in Point to multi point
environments
• Lower latency
• No distance limitations
• No penalty for long distances.
 NV2 WITH QUEUES
• By default (nv2-qos=default) NV2 use two
queues (nv2-queue=2).
• In this mode, all outgoing packets are
handled by the integrated QoS algorithm
based on packet type and size.

QoS settings are only done on

the AP!
There is no need at station
end
 NV2 QUEUES MANAGEMENT
• We can use 2 (RouterOS default), 4 or 8 separate queues inside a NV2 link for
individual traffic classes.
• ‘Packet to queue’ depends on the selected number of available NV2 queues (2, 4 or
8 queues)
 QUEUES BEHAVIOR
To understand this behavior, we have to take a deeper look in the IEEE Standard for
802.1D-2004 Bridge definitions!

Higher
 THE FRAME-PRIORITY OPTION

• If the built-in rules do not

apply, also in this mode
the queuing mechanism
use the Frame-Priority
field.
 THE FRAME-PRIORITY FIELD

• This can easily be done using the

‘action=set-priority’ functionality inside
the powerful firewall subsystem of
RouterOS which is available for

• Layer2 (in Bridge Filter)

• Layer3 (in IP Firewall Mangle)
CONFIGURATION TO BE USED…

VOIP FTP

SQL base Software

 MY PROJECT PLACE
GULBERG III LAHORE
PAKISTAN
Wireless device: MikroTik SXT 5 AC
Wireless Environment: Congested & Smoked
WIRELESS PTP LINK 5 km
Data Throughout put: 50 Mbps
Highest priority set: IP Phone / IP PBX
 BRIDGE &
BRIDGE
STATION LINK
STABILITY
 GOAL ACHIEVED

UDP protocol with TCP protocol with ICMP protocol

priority 3 priority 6 with priority 7
NV2 QUEUES
WITH
HIGHEST
FRAME
PRIORITY (7)

(IP PHONE)

TCP LOGS
 MIKROTIK OS
WIRELESS BRIDGE
CONFIGURATION
 BRIDGE CONFIGURATION
• First of all make a bridge interface and add ether1 port & wlan1 port on
Both Devices one by one
AP BRIDGE END CONFIGURATION
STATION BRIDGE END CONFIGURATION
IP ADDRESS TO BRIDGE INTERFACES

AP bridge End IP address

10.0.0.1/24 Station bridge End IP
address
10.0.0.2/24
 METHOD 1

FRAME PRIORITY WITH

LAYER 2.

IN BRIDGE FILTERS
UDP FRAME PRIORITY
TCP FRAME PRIORITY
ICMP (PING) FRAME PRIORITY
LOG SETTING TO CONFIRM ICMP PRIORITY
IN BRIDGE FILTER RULE
LOGS
 METHOD 2

FRAME PRIORITY WITH

LAYER 3

IN IP FIREWALL MANGLE
UDP FRAME PRIORITY
TCP FRAME PRIORITY
ICMP (PING) FRAME PRIORITY
LOG SETTING TO CONFIRM ICMP PRIORITY
IP FIREWALL FILTER
USE OF FIREWALL IN BRIDGE
LOGS
 CONCLUSION

MikroTik OS Base Wireless Bridge is more

reliable, Stronger & Faster than all existing
Wireless PTP Bridge Link in Congested
Environment as I`ve Tested
THANK YOU
ANY QUESTION
PLEASE